Frederick C. Sturm
Frederick C. Sturm is listed as a captain in a Union volunteer regiment during the Civil War, a rank commonly held by company commanders of the period. Repeated searches of Wikipedia, Find A Grave, and Civil War roster resources did not surface a biography that could be confidently matched to this exact name and rank; […]
Lawrence Rousseau
Lawrence Rousseau, a New Orleans native, spent over five decades at sea, rising to captain in the United States Navy by 1837 after joining as a midshipman in 1809. At the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned his federal commission and was commissioned a captain in the Confederate States Navy, helping organize naval defenses […]